Xiomi. Sue me.
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Currently using a samsung, looking to jump ship
Samsung. It's not US nor Chinese.
Graphene os on a pixel 6 for work nr and banking apps
Ubuntu touch on a volla Quintus for personal nr and self-flagellation
I'm using a Samsung with an android os. I wanted an android phone but couldn't get my hands on one at the time, so this was the next best option.
S24 FE. I hate all the recent changes Samsung has been doing but this phone should last me until 2030 at least, probably more. I'm also the only person on Lemmy who likes OneUI, and I'm OK with that now that all alternative launchers are enshittifying.
By the time I need to replace it, the market will probably be in an entirely different place and maybe even some Linux versions could be more viable.
I use Immich, bitwarden, mega, and Tuta. Which covers the backup of everything.
Lineage OS on a Pixel 4.
Fold 5. Battery is getting annoying, so decent odds I pick up the 8 when it drops in the summer. I miss the days when you could just pop a battery out. It's expensive but the larger screen is amazing and I'll probably never go back. I'm not married to having a Samsung foldable specifically, but the only really competitive options are banned in the US.
Fairphone 6 with e/OS
I had three straight Pixel phones die from random hardware failures on me in the span of less than two years, so I have high hopes for this Motorola/GrapheneOS collab.
Currently using a Razr foldable. Which has lasted longer than two of the three Pixels put together. Stock Android. Would love to put LineageOS on it instead. Currently no rom for it and I'm not a developer.
EDIT: For backups, I do it the old fashioned way. Periodic device dumps into 3 different desktop/laptop computers. Not optimal, don't have the time or budget to do better right now. Again, I'm not a developer and frankly most of my life is not digital. The parts that are digital aren't a huge deal to me if they aren't airtight secure.
As politics go, I WANT people to know that I'm for trans rights and body autonomy and that I think all republicans deserve the gulag. Please record my full name and details with my convictions on those issues and display them everywhere when I'm gone. I will NOT go down in history lumped in with the masses under "Why didn't regular people fight back? Did they actually support this?" when this regime is studied in school with the scorn and ridicule it deserves. Anyway, I don't put my name out there on purpose with that stuff but if someone links me to the causes I support because there are memes about trans people in my Google account, all the better. I wear pride in public anyway, might as well wear it in private.
iphone 8 😀
GrapheneOS on a Pixel 7
How do you know???
everyone on Lemmy uses GrapheneOS on a Pixel 7
Wrong, I use it on a Pixel 6 Pro
and everything backed up via nextcloud running on a headless Debian Raspberry Pie?
Also wrong, my nextcloud and headless Debian is running on a Proxmox VM
GrapheneOS on pixel 8 (terrible phone, hardware-wise) backed up to nextcloud (nextcloud sucks, looking to switch)
GrapheneOS on a pixel 8 pro I got second hand a few months back.
GrapheneOS on a pixel 8
Unihertz Jelly Star with its stock Android. Fantastic phone :)
How do you even type on that thing
That is the goofiest little phone I have ever seen
S24 Ultra. Will be my last Android with the way things are going.
Being on an iPhone for 11 years and then going to Android was a jaw dropping experience.
But now no more sideloading and Nova Launcher went to shit with ads after the owners sold (out).
The FOSS launcher Lawnchair is actually pretty great. Took some setting up, but now it does everything nova did for me.
Sideloading though, yeah I really hope that doesn't go through. Fun fact even now I can't use a local gov't because I have an accessibility service running that was 'sideloaded' (it's from Lawnchair, if you want double tap to lock you need it)
Librem 5.
Cons: Storage and RAM small. Battery so-so.
Pros: I haven't seen a single other phone I would rather own. Android and iOS are dumb as hell. Terrible OSes, in my opinion.
I want a Liberty Phone but can't justify the money. This works well enough for me. I will almost certainly be buying the L5 successor.
How does it do as a daily driver? You can do banking? Run random Android apps, etc?
Nope.
Well, I don't use any banking apps, personally. My understanding is that they don't work under Waydroid.
Other Android apps mostly work fine in Waydroid, so long as they don't need access to GPS or camera to work properly.
I removed Waydroid a while back, though, as I only needed it for one app and Waydroid took up almost 1/3 of the storage on the phone. It just wasn't worth it, and I am happier to be rid of the Android ecosystem anyways.
I should mention that the Linux phone life is NOT for everyone.
I should also mention that battery life is still not anywhere close to competitors. Camera is meh but improves with updates.
For my use cases (Phone/SMS/MMS, Lemmy, Mastodon, and a few other apps), it works totally fine and has proven to be reliable enough for almost 3 years. It gets better with age due to updates.
Grapheneos on my pixel 9, perfectly complements my PC with Arch :3
Oppo Reno 12, running on Android - via Oppo's "ColorOS", which is ok.
Using a one plus nord n30 5g with lineage os. It's a super budget phone. Looks like us one plus users are in the minority here.
Pixel 8 with GrapheneOS (fully degoogled)
Yeah, but they seem to have a decent approach to AI, not slap it on everything.
The cheapest new iPhone I could buy locally.
Pixel 9 with Graphene OS. I don't really bother with backups besides my personal photos since there's nothing critical on my phone. But I use immich for photos hosted on my unraid server.
I do have two backup Raspberry Pis, one at my house and one at a friend's, that my photos and other critical data is backed up to daily.
+1 for immich and local hosting.
iPhone 13 Pro. Planning on replacing the battery if it ever gets too bad, then maybe replacing it with a Fairphone a few years after.
I use Ubuntu Touch on Fairphone 4 with Nextcloud backup (self hosted).
You are lemmy
Switched from an iPhone Air to a Pixel 9a with grapheneOS.
Way cheaper, safer, I have learned a ton about security and self hosting and learned to love computers again.
Graphene on a Pixel 8a. One of the few currently viable options, in my eyes.
I wish. Using a pixel 6 here, not looking forward to when I need to replace it.
Same here, the phone is perfectly capable making the software updates situation so dumb
Nothing Phone 1, one of the best phones I've ever used, utilise the glyph system often and hope to upgrade at some point to a Nothing Phone 3.
Plus it's not from the US, so perfect for me.
Nothing phone 2 here, been a great phone but I bought a new CMF phone and had to remove a bunch of forced AI bullshit using adb so I don't think if buy another nothing phone. Still a nice piece of hardware sadly
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Sony Xperia 1 IV. Their naming scheme is terrible.
Main reason is because I wanted a future-proof, flagship phone with a headphone jack and micro SD card slot. Both have proven very useful, and I am still kind of in shock that most manufacturers have dropped them.
Stock android. Still using the NoVa launcher because I haven't had the free time to try out others, plus my pi-hole seems to block the ads they have been introducing for now.
The Xperia has a weirdly narrow screen. I like it in a vacuum better than todays phablets, but I think the occasional webpage scales weirdly.
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